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Urban movements in a globalising world

Title: Urban movements in a globalising world / edited by Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler, and Margit Mayer.
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2000.

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ix, 221 pages; 24 cm

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Contents

Introduction: urban social movements - local thematics, global spaces / Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Margit Mayer -- Pt. I. Urban social movements: global impacts and the new urban citizenship. 1. New social movements, poor people's movements and the struggle for social citizenship / Roland Roth. 2. The miniaturisation of collective action: ghettos and global space / Henri Lustiger-Thaler. 3. Marginalisation and political responses in the French context / Sophie Boyd-Gendrot -- Pt. II. The urban economy in global context. 4. Globalisation, entrepreneurial cities and the social economy / Bob Jessop. 5. Local finance in a global economy: palliative or panacea? / Marguerite Mendell. 6. Workfare and community economic development in Montreal: community and work in the late twentieth century / Eric Shragge and Jean-Marc Fontan -- Pt. III. Urban social movements and the global future. 7. Urban social movements in an era of globalisation / Margit Mayer.
8. The fragmentation of social movements and social justice: beyond the traditional forms of localism / Pierre Hamel. 9. Local citizens' initiatives during the (East) German transformation / Dieter Rink. 10. The diversity of Eastern European social movements: urban movements, new social movements and nationalist movements in post-socialist societies / Katy Pickvance.

ISBN

0415244250

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00055225

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Columbia University Libraries